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Today, a poster was released. If you want a sense of the scale of these things look at the shoulder. The monsters must be huge. I'm really looking forward to this film. Hollywood hasn't really given us a giant robots vs. giant monsters film before. It comes out next July. I think this is one to watch out for: http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-conte...ch1.jpg?d58414

There's going to be a panel at SDCC. Hopefully some footage and pictures will be shown.

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Oscar® nominee Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) is directing “Pacific Rim” from a script by Travis Beacham (“Clash of the Titans”). Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Mary Parent are producing, with Callum Greene serving as executive producer.

I'm interested, but the plot synopsis parallels the anime Gunbuster, which I've grown up with. So, I'm not thinking that this story is going to be anything groundbreaking

I don't think the story is going to set the world alight, I do agree with that. Two things have me interested, though, and they are Guillermo del Toro and the potential visuals. We all know that Guillermo del Toro loves his monsters and I have no doubt that this film will be quite special on that front. It’s also got robots, which we know have gone down quite well recently at the cinema. I really think this has the potential to be something quite spectacular.

I'm kind of hoping it performs really well, because then it will increase the likelihood of a Voltron film.

I almost started a thread on this today! I'm there for a del Toro film just to see what he does with it. But the concept does sound cool. I think he could put a nice spin on it. Like what we've seen so far of the design.

It's a shame that only Gipsy Danger's "blue prints" are large enough to appreciate the detail -- hopefully the others will show up at higher resolutions later.

Video clips promoting the movie have started turning up as well.

First very brief look at a daikaiju:

And here's a test of the Kaiju Emergency Alert system:

Oh, nearly forgot. The official website went live earlier this month also: http://www.panpacificdefense.com/
Not much there just yet, but it seems there will be another release of something in about 2 weeks -- I'm guessing the trailer since it's supposed to run with THE HOBBIT.

Giant robots? I'm in. What is this, the first movie to hit theaters with real giant robots since Robot Jox? I'm probably mistaken, but I know it's been a LONG time since anyone has tried this. OH I hope it works! I so want to see mechs make a comeback.

"Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking." ~ Tock, the Watchdog

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Interesting, another curious detail. From what we've been told so far the Jaeger's all require two pilots; however Coyote Tango only shows one pilot and Crimson Typhoon shows three pilots. I wonder what the story is behind these two Jaegers apparently having something other than two pilots.

WOW! Looks amazing. I didn't thought that was going to be so rainy all the time; don't know why I thought that it was going to be a more Evangelion kind of sunny day battle. Although, all the other elements are there

I have to say, I'm not all that thrilled with the trailer. I never heard of the movie before, but it looks to be nothing more than a rip-off of Transformers and Real Steel (which was already bad enough) with organic monsters thrown into it.

Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.